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The American Lawyer

Ivory Tower Jobs Lure Akin Gump Cyber Pro, Gibson Dunn Partner

The rhythms of university life beckoned to a pair of Big Law veterans on either coast this summer, with partners departing Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for academic positions.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Are Asian-Americans Fed Up With Law?

While it might be easy to read a recent report as a confirmation of how the system fails Asian-Americans, it actually paints a more complicated picture.
6 minute read

The Recorder

UC Law Schools Win Bid to Intervene in Case Awarding $45M for Botched Mortgage

A bankruptcy judge has ruled that the institutions have standing in a lawsuit resulting in a large punitive damages award.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York Legal Assistance Group, Inc. v. USA

NYLAG, DOE Granted Part Judgment in Challenge To Withholdings Under FOIA Exemptions 5, 7(E)
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

UM Recognized for Music Law Programs

Billboard magazine puts the University of Miami's School of Law on its list of the top 12 programs nationally.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Trump Legal Team Fires Back at Plaintiff Seeking to Unravel Trump U Settlement

President Donald Trump, in court papers, has accused a lawyer and nearly two dozen law professors of lodging “inflammatory, gratuitous and untested facts and assertions” in their objections to the $25 million Trump University settlement.
13 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Senator Pitches Plan to Ease Burdensome Student Debt

Meeting with college students and recent graduates dealing with the burden of student debt, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson outlined legislation that would cap rates on federal undergraduate loans at 4 percent and allow the refinancing of older loans at lower rates.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Racist Pasts of Boalt Hall and Hastings' Namesakes Haunt Law Schools

Lawyer Serranus Clinton Hastings made his fortune during the California Gold Rush and served as the first chief justice of the state's Supreme Court before giving $100,000—supposedly in gold coins—to establish the University of California's first law school in 1878.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Racist Pasts of Boalt Hall and Hastings' Namesakes Haunt Law Schools

One man advocated for barring Chinese immigrants; another apparently enjoyed an abhorrent pastime.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Trump Legal Team Fires Back at Plaintiff Seeking to Unravel Trump U Settlement

President Donald Trump in court papers has accused a lawyer and nearly two dozen law professors of lodging "inflammatory, gratuitous, and untested facts and assertions" in their objections over his $25 million Trump University settlement.
13 minute read

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